Sunday, February 6, 2011

no opinion

If you wish to know the truth,then hold to no opinions for or against anything.-- from Hsin Hsin MingVerses on the Faith MindBy Sengtsan, third Chinese patriarch, died 606 AD Translation by Dr. Richard Clarke

the questioner asks:
"why is this happening?
why isn't something better happening?
why am i stuck with this?
why don't i have something better than this?"

Wayne says: "the answer to why is because."

the questioner yells
"you're talking nonsense!
you're not logical!
you're irrational!
why do people like you
even exist?"

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The development of the haiku was largely the work of Basho (1643–1694), whose feeling for Zen wanted to express itself in a type of poetry altogether in the spirit of wu-shih–“nothing special ...”

... Basho wrote his haiku in the simplest type of Japanese speech, naturally avoiding literary and “highbrow” language, so creating a style which made it possible for ordinary people to be poets. --- Alan W. Watts. The Way of Zen (p. 184). Vintage. Kindle Edition.